How the web destroys the quality of Students Research Paper.
- David Rothenberg
In this essay Prof.
Rothenberg has a display the harmful effects of the use of external especially
for the students. The writer has claimed that plagiarism (copying) has lost the
sense of originality. In fact his experience with the last semester students
clarify that the students were eager to download the materials without
mentioning their sources likewise all the references were taken from the
external and the students even didn’t know where they exactly occurred.
For the ever growing use of the web, the students themselves aren’t fully
responsible because the universities themselves teach the students,” Don’t
read, just connect”. Instead of searching the materials in the libraries, it is
easy for the students to cut and paste.
The university teachers must be friendly with the students and they must
encourage the students to read books from the libraries and consult the related
journals .When the teachers give pressure to the students they are likely to
download the materials form the web that helps them to secure a good grade and
avoid the pressure of the teacher.
It is also necessary that libraries must be mad up-to-date. It is better to
invest on buying book than spending so much money for computer.
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According to the writer, he is given hundreds of research papers by the final
year's students. He would like to read all of them and evaluate them but he
knows that this papers aren’t the original creation of the students for they
were down loaded from the web.
It was obvious that the downloaded materials lost their originality due to
which writing of the students lost coherence (unity).
While looking at the papers the writer noticed that all the works cited from
the web and they were written during two months. It clarified that the students
were missing the general trend of the past and they also failed to make their
papers specific. Neither they were able to take any authentic writers. For their
citation nor were they able to give credit to the owner of the material.
In the research papers the beautiful pictures had been quoted but those
pictures were the result of copy ,cut and paste. Besides random quotations were
found but the sources weren’t maintain.
Prof. Rotherberg Denies that he is a Luddite but against the idea of misusing
the technology. In other words, he believes that the students' quality should
not be damaged by so – called industrialization.
After finding out the errors with students, the writer talks about the causing
factors for their flight. First of all, universities themselves are responsible
because they are trying to show themselves modernize and spend a huge amount
for the computers. The slogan “don’t read, first connect “encourages the
students to download the materials rather than create their own ideas.
Similarly the teachers are unable to provide adequate information to the
students, the result is downloading the materials. Especially the students of
second language download the materials so as to secure a good grade in their
exams.
Therefore the students must be made aware about the harmful effects of
downloading the materials and they must be encouraged to use libraries free –
entry.
Richard Cummins / An opposing view Richard Cummins
An opposing view
Richard Cummins
When the article of Rothenberg was published a
lot of responses appeared in the newspaper. Among them Richard Cummins also
could not help publishing his ideas. He opposed the idea of Rothenberg and
tries to establish the web as an inevitable part of modern students.
Richard Cummins appreciates the logics given by Rothenberg but he criticizes
the narrow concept of Rothenberg. Cummins argues that the available materials
should be provided to the students so that they can make their writing and
thinking even better. Similarly he rejects the idea of originality and
clarifies that there is nothing of modern techniques that enable the students
to increase their quality.
Cummins uses the metaphor of a spider and a fly. It is up to the students
whether to become a spider or a fly. In other words good and evil come
together. Whether we take the good aspects or the bad ones depend on ourselves.
So the web is not responsible for the destruction of students for their plight.
Therefore the teachers should not advocate for banning (to respect) the modern
techniques but they should teach the students how to get benefit out of them –
· Personal
persuasive essay
· Educational
hazards (dangerous situation) of the world wide web (www)
· Rothenberg’s
criticism of students use of www
· The use of interest is don’t read just connect, surf (search), download, cut and paste.
BA 2nd year TU Compulsory English 202
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